12-letter words containing g, y, p
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- long-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- lyophilizing — Present participle of lyophilize.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- morphography — the scientific description of an external form
- morphonology — morphophonemics (def 1).
- mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
- mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nephrography — Diagnostic imaging of the kidneys.
- new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- non-pyogenic — producing or generating pus.
- noncomplying — the failure to comply; non-compliance
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- ophthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
- opthalmology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
- organography — the description or visual depiction of organs.
- palaebiology — the study of fossil animals and plants
- palaeography — the study of the handwritings of the past, and often the manuscripts as well, so that they may be dated, read, etc, and may serve as historical and literary sources
- palatography — a technique for observing the position of the tongue in relation to the palate during articulation, especially by placing powder or dye on the palate and then noting the area from which it has been removed by the contact of the tongue with the palate during the production of a speech sound.
- paleobiology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil life forms, especially with reference to their origin, structure, evolution, etc.
- paleoecology — the branch of ecology dealing with the relations and interactions between ancient life forms and their environment.
- paleogeology — the science of representing geologic conditions of some given time in past earth history.
- paleontology — the science of the forms of life existing in former geologic periods, as represented by their fossils.
- paleozoology — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil animals.
- palynologist — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- pama-nyungan — a family of Australian aboriginal languages, the most widespread within the Australian group of languages.
- panic buying — shopping to stockpile for emergency
- panty girdle — women's control pants
- paracyanogen — a polymer of cyanogen
- paradoxology — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- paraguay tea — maté.
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- parasitology — the branch of biology dealing with parasites and the effects of parasitism.
- paroemiology — the study of proverbs